The 99th Monkey: A Spiritual Journalist's Misadventures with Gurus, Messiahs, Sex, Psychedelics, and Other Consciousness-Raising Experiments
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| Rating | : | 4.40 (570 Votes) |
| Asin | : | 159580028X |
| Format Type | : | paperback |
| Number of Pages | : | 307 Pages |
| Publish Date | : | 2016-11-18 |
| Language | : | English |
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Oy! what does a person need to do to get enlightened? Eliezer qualifies as a mensch; perhaps too attached to being the 99th monkey, but offering a self deprecating,inspired,desperate roller coaster ride in pursuit of the UNKNOWN. I was right alongside of him with my past history. He chronicles it well: just the right blend of gossip, earnestness, adventure, insight and exhaustion.. A frank and funny collection of stories. Lynda Lippin "I am the 99th Monkey. If you don't get me, you don't get your critical mass, and it screws up the whole works. I seem to be single-handedly holding back the Great Paradigm Shift of the Golden Age simply through my continuing to be a resistant little putz."Most people of the hippie/new age/spiritual enlightenment seeking ilk have heard the infamous legend of the 100th monkey. Scientists who were studying monkeys on Koshima Island in Japan in 1952 introduced the sweet potato as a new snack, which the monkeys loved even though it was always covered in sand. . New Age honesty! M. T. Guzman I was calmly reading this book trying to figure out if I liked it or not when I came across these words: "My time at The New Sun seemed to have prepared me to be a bridge between two very distinct worlds: the lunatic fringe and the mainstream normal."Right away, I felt this book was worth reading. In my world, I have one particular friend who loves the "airy-fairy" stuff, that is to say, whatever is the newest in the New Age or the spiritual realms. My other friends all seem kind of Old World, meaning that they are of the more traditional spiritual world o
From Primal Therapy to the Dalai Lama, this perceptively witty analysis includes brushes with cults, wild experiments with sex and psychedelics, and encounters with visionary gurus and contemporary madmen.. Serving as a human guinea pig for many of the most popular cutting-edge New Age, human potential, and spiritual experiments, Eliezer Sobel recounts intercontinental adventures in India, Israel, Brazil, and Haiti. Suffused with a unique brand of irreverent humor, this account recalls the autobiographical explorations of the most significant alternative communities, ashrams, gurus, shamans, and consciousness-raising seminars of the past 40 years
All rights reserved. . Copyright © Reed Business Information, a division of Reed Elsevier Inc. Sobel's spiritual journey doesn't provide any answers (these days, the title on his business card is "Human Being") but provides lots of engaging, regular-guy perspective on modern man's confounding array of ancient and contemporary fulfillment schemes. Other episodes include Primal Therapy training with a teacher who rents his office space for porn production, the "est" training that teaches people to accept reality as it is (and then rope everyone they know into the program), and tours through Jerusalem, India and Brazil. From Publishers Weekly While a romp through the New Age is not everyone's cup of tea, novelist, publisher and editor Sobel (Minyan) does a fine job making his 30-year quest for spiritual awakening widely identifiable with a funny, clear-eyed account that takes readers around the